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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:38:10 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem in pthread_key_create
Message-ID: <20050110123810.GG7748@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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On Jan 10 13:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan  9 18:31, Johnny Willemsen wrote:
> > A question, I had a look at the implementation of pthread_key_create. When
> > an invalid key is passed, a EBUSY is returned.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I just read this again and it occured to me that this is a misconception.
pthread_key_create() returns EBUSY if a *valid* key is passed.  This
should make it clearer, shouldn't it?


Corinna

> 
> No, that's not a bug.  Please read the SUSv3 description for
> pthread_key_create() here:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_key_create.html
> 
> Please note especially the chapter
> 
>   RATIONALE/Non-Idempotent Data Key Creation.
> [...]

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